Bug 6671

Ghm, looking at symbols/pc, I see KP_Delete on the same shift level as digits.
What's wrong with it?

Also, I think it would be good to replace the lines with KP_* keysyms with
include "keypad(comma)" - which is effectively same thing. Don't you mind?

As a final note - would someone from Debian (reporters of the bug) be able to
look at macintosh_vndr stuff and analyze whether it could be made combinable
(i.e. all layouts would have one group each)?

> Ghm, looking at symbols/pc, I see KP_Delete on the same shift level as digits.
> What's wrong with it?
I meant digits on the keypad: KP_0, KP_1, etc.  KP_Decimal and/or KP_Separator
should be at the same shift level, because this is what a keypad is for: to
enter numbers without having to press extra keys.
But there seems to be a problem here, because macintosh_vndr/us and pc
swap shift levels for the keypad.

> Also, I think it would be good to replace the lines with KP_* keysyms with
> include "keypad(comma)" - which is effectively same thing. Don't you mind?
Sounds very reasonable.

> As a final note - would someone from Debian (reporters of the bug) be able to
> look at macintosh_vndr stuff and analyze whether it could be made combinable
> (i.e. all layouts would have one group each)?
There is a debian-powerpc mailing list, I will ask there.

> But there seems to be a problem here, because macintosh_vndr/us and pc
> swap shift levels for the keypad.
Agree. Should macintosh_vndr be fixed to be conformant with pc?

> > Also, I think it would be good to replace the lines with KP_* keysyms with
> > include "keypad(comma)" - which is effectively same thing. Don't you mind?
> Sounds very reasonable.
Done.

> There is a debian-powerpc mailing list, I will ask there.
Thanks a bunch.

Created attachment 6162 [details] [review]
german macintosh keyboard  with only one group

After reading about this on the debian-powerpc mailing list, I took the time to
build a xkb layout for german macintosh keyboards which uses only one group.

It is not the same mapping as in macintosh_vndr/de, instead it's more close to 
the mapping in MacOS X.3.
There are 2 variants:
  mac: using dead keys as much as possible
  mac_nodeadkeys: without dead keys
both are variants to the german layout in symbols/de.

I am curious to see your comments.

  Ben

Ben, your patch looks ok to me. If you think it is a final version, I am ready
to accept it.

I think it's final.

Ben, thanks. Committed.

Should work as expected with numpad:mac, I am thus closing this
bug.  Thanks.